I run an offset stick-burner and at times I get a small taste of creosote after I add wood. Any other tricks or advise on adding fuel when cooking with 100% wood.
Use aged dryer than greener wood.
Maintain hot coal bed.
Maximize air flow to generate combustion quickly to flame.
Use splits that are smaller than normal if prior splits have lost flame.
Heat splits on top of firebox, and keep the rotation every time you add wood.
Experiment on what size and length of splits your rig runs cleanest on.
If you have a top lid on your firebox, open to allow splits to start flaming.
No lid on firebox, open cook chamber briefly to dissipate funky white smoke, until newly added splits start burning cleanly.
Lack of, or diminished coal bed prior to the addition of any new wood will prevent the desired almost instant ignition of the newly added split. Waiting to long to add splits can create slow re-ignition, opposed to adding new splits while still having flames from currently burning split. Coal grate with too much air space under the burning wood can also let coals drop through to a low enough level to not have enough direct contact with newly added splits. Depends on how long you wait to add wood.
With your fabrication skills, and design experimentation, I feel that any changes that you need to consider regarding how to get a newly added split to burn clean will be a very short learning curve.
Good luck.
